Sly Pete in dynamic semantics
Journal article
Goldstein, Simon David. (2022). Sly Pete in dynamic semantics. Journal of Philosophical Logic. 51(5), pp. 1103-1117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-022-09660-w
Authors | Goldstein, Simon David |
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Abstract | In ‘Sly Pete’ or ‘standoff’ cases, reasonable speakers accept incompatible conditionals, and communicate them successfully to a trusting hearer. This paper uses the framework of dynamic semantics to offer a new model of the conversational dynamics at play in standoffs, and to articulate several puzzles posed by such cases. The paper resolves these puzzles by embracing a dynamic semantics for conditionals, according to which indicative conditionals require that their antecedents are possible in their local context, and update this body of information by eliminating the possibilities where the antecedent is true and the consequent is false. In this way, the dynamic analysis draws on insights from the material conditional and contextualist analyses, while explaining how standoffs are genuine disagreements. |
Keywords | Sly pete; conditionals; dynamic semantics |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Journal of Philosophical Logic |
Journal citation | 51 (5), pp. 1103-1117 |
Publisher | Springer |
ISSN | 0022-3611 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-022-09660-w |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85129285179 |
Open access | Published as green open access |
Page range | 1103-1117 |
Author's accepted manuscript | License All rights reserved File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 03 May 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 24 Mar 2022 |
Deposited | 17 May 2023 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8z066/sly-pete-in-dynamic-semantics
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